Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-12-09
GEORGE r. LAWRE nee.
ORIGIN TRAMP PRINTER,
United states.

IN the winter OF liIe, DelhR hDout
seventy five years of age. He is very
Intelligent. pleasing in conversation.
and on the whole a most agreeable per
sonage to meet. He was born in Sara
toga. n. Y. and at ton years of age he
went to Albion in the same State.
my schoolmasters. said Lawrence
to a reporter, "included Judge Noah
Davis, of New York City; Wilson x,
McAllister, Sidney Smith. of Chicago;
the late Judge Sanford Z. Church. Of
New York City, formerly Lieutenant
Governor Of New York; the late Ben
Field, and others who made their mark
in the world"
'In 1880 / became apprenticed to
Timothy G. Strong, editor Of the Or
leans Amerjcan, Orleans, N. Y. be-
came. in time, a journeyman printer
About 1910 we had chance to distn-
guish ourselves in politics. | had no
voice for making speeches, and so went
about singing old Tip and Tyler too
into office. / worked on a paper in
Rochester till 1916, marrying in the
meantime. Later. with ID. r. Locke,
Nasty | went to Hudson, o., to work
in large publishing house"
"You had then begun your tramp
lifeP"
"Yes, and I have kept it up about
ever since. AT Buffalo | secured p sit
on the Repubiic. | went to Washington
in Fi.mores administration. | knew
him intimately. ] read his proofs in the
Republic office. 1t was dull in Wash
ington, so | went to Richmond. didn't
like the place, and got out of it rs soon
rs ] could. | went to Petersburg next,
and later l found myself in Tanver's
Creek. seven miles f, ON Norfolk. Then
went to Portsmouth. Va. Here had
cash capital of ten cents. | ran a
daily paper in the town aud made ii
pay.
Not many weeks later Commodore
Perry was fitting out for his Japan ex-
petition. Lawrence knew of it, and
he wanted to join the fleet.
II sold my interest in the paper, y
says Lawrence, land soon | shipped on
the Powhattan. Twas put on duty by
Captain Abbott. We broke a shaft,
came back to port. and when the fleet
sailed | was laid up with typhoid fever.
| asked for discharge. got it, and
quietly went home to my family with
full three years pay
"The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bill was the
topic about this time. and Free State
men were wanted in Kansas. / started
for Leavenworth, but | soon got out OF
cash and had to do subbng at printing
offices from place to place as | pro-
cceded. | remained in Kansas till
Peak. Six months later found me in
Portland, Ore. We were searching for
gold. Next, | found myself in Frisco.
Then | crossed the lsthmus and came
home to Rochester,
Were You glad to get homeP'
"Yes, but still the spirit of unrest
soon showed itself and | determined to
30 to Chicago. | worked for Joe
Medill, now of the Chicago Tribune,
went to Rock Island, then to st. Paul
which was hardly more than little
village then. A party of us bought a
small flatboat and we were soon on
the way down the river for New Or
leans. On the way | 'sticked' type
in Dubuque, Davenport, Bloomington,
Quincy, st. Louis, Vicksburg and other
places.
Secession was talked of in Now
Orleans and life became burden to
the Northcrners. 1t became hot for
Yankees, and sixty of us banded to-
gether to come North by the river.
We had bnt little ia the way of funds.
Most of ms were armed either with rifles
OF revolvers. With the aid of the rifles
we were able to reach Cairo, where |
worked for printer long enough to
get money to 20 home once more to
my dear little wife.
AT Cleveland l enlisted in the
Second Ohio regiment. We went to
Washington, and soon after the Bull
Run fight were discharged, | went
home. Late in December, 1861, en-
listed again as n New York State vol
unteer, and went to Key West, Fla.
Then we were sent to Pensacola. De-
cember "a, 1862, General Butler sent
us to Baton Rouge. In the spring we
took part in passing the gunboats at
Port Hudson. We went up the Red
river under Banks. and in few months
we went home on furlough | re-
manned in the service till July 4, 1865. v
Did you go to printing again?'
YES, | have been printer always.
| always expect to be. Since then ]
have been in Europe. Asia, on the west
coast of Africa, the West India islands,
and ~ far west rs Kansas City in this
country, setting type or doing some
kind of printing to earn food, clothes
and dollar to take me fifty miles east
ar west, north or south. From Kansas
City | footed it to Erie, Pa. l have Sc.
cured something to do out of town, and
hope to see you again. - Boston Globe.
Yellowstone Park shows its enter.
prise by bursting out in new place
with geyser which outsquirts all the
old ones.
-Twenty-eight unmarried women
reside in Garfield County Col. also
-, I A, II a..